Miranda Devine: Pitiful lefty White House press corps whines about access after barely making a peep when Biden was AWOL in office
The White House press corps has a hide complaining about access to the president after it raised barely a peep in protest at Joe Biden being practically AWOL his entire presidency.Biden didn’t even hold a press conference until two months in.The handful of press conferences he did conduct were a bad joke, in which he would take three or four questions from preselected reporters, whose names and photographs were printed on a card.Yet he still got fawning praise from the Washington media.
The worst insult they could muster was “boring,” but The Baltimore Sun even spun that into “Biden’s superpower.”In the absence of access to the president or real news to report, the pool contented itself with secondhand stories about Biden family life, doled out like party favors by unnamed White House staff.“President Biden has expressed a preference for a fire built in the Oval Office fireplace, and sometimes adds a log himself to keep it going,” was an example of CNN’s hard-hitting analysis.Trump, on the other hand, has taken more than 1,000 questions from reporters and is available every day.He invites reporters into his suite on Air Force One, conducts impromptu press conferences in the Oval Office while signing executive orders, holds regular press conferences that exhaust every question.Wednesday, he invited the media to observe his first Cabinet meeting for about an hour.It’s the most transparent presidency in history, and yet The New York Times is comparing it to the Kremlin.“Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of [Vladimir] Putin’s reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access,” Times reporter Peter Baker snarked on X.Their latest Russia-hoax furor erupted after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced she was sidelining the White House Correspondents’ Association — an outdated and unrepresentative group of legacy media ...